Remembering what the Red Sox look like without beards

Remembering what the Red Sox look like without beards

As you’ve probably noticed by now, the Boston Red Sox have beards. Some of them have beards so large or so bold that it’s difficult to imagine their faces without them. That’s why we’re here.

Here are eight of the Red Sox’ most prominent beard men in times they didn’t sport such prominent beards.

1. Mike Napoli

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Napoli has said he has no plans to part with the beard after the season. He risks becoming the next Brian Wilson, and winding up way down a beard-growing rabbithole he can never crawl out from. But in the meantime, it definitely distinguishes him from Dan Uggla better than his more clean-cut headshot ever could.

5. Dustin Pedroia

6. David Ortiz

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Ortiz usually has a well-kept chin-strap beard, though he appears to have let it grow longer this season as part of the Sox’ whole beard thing. It’s definitely an important part of his look, and he hardly looks like David Ortiz without it. It underlines his face.

7. Mike Carp

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Carp apparently can look very young or very old simply based on how he styles his beard. Clean-shaven he might still get carded at R-rated movies. How it looks now, he could easily pass for Rip Van Winkle.

8. Jonny Gomes

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Hold everything. That’s what Jonny Gomes looks like without his beard?

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